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How to reliably determine the name of an application for use in Gnome: Favorite Applications?

I have ran the following command to setup my Favorite Applications menu: gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "[ \ 'docker-desktop.desktop', \ 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', \ '...
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Application for tracking applications usage times

Does there exist a program which allows to automatically track "window focus" time in, for example, Gnome? For example, I would like to track how much time per day I spend using a certain ...
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Query and Cleanup Running Applications in GNOME

I have managed to put my user session (GNOME 3) into a state where the running applications list contains an entry which I don't believe exists. By this, I mean that the Applications bar has the ...
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How to switch HiDPI application resolution without restarting them

I am running GNOME 3.26 with GDM on X.org. I have an external monitor at work and I am running my Laptop (Dell XPS 9550) and the monitor in about the same resolution (regarding dpi; both around ~...
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for convention in which folder should I place no-installable applications?

I've just downloaded Eclipse Neon and I don't know in which folder should I place it, also I want to create an entry on Gnome's menu, how can I achieve that?
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How to stop a stickied application from launching new instance if already running?

I have a program that I have written in Python and added to Gnome with a desktop file. When I click the stickied icon in Gnome to launch it, it duplicates the icon on my task bar and opens a new ...
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How to automatically add my program to gnome panel

I wrote a program like dropbox seen in pic. I want to add the icon as that of dropbox. How could I do that? How to automatically do that?
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Will GNOME and GTK libs bloat up my KDE?

I want to use Shutter. I installed it previously under Kubuntu and it needed a lot of libs. What bothered me most was that Kubuntu wanted me to restart, that is rare for OS's nowadays and in general ...
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